Thermal waters

This course focuses on natural mineral waters and thermal waters whose specificities and characteristics make them particular resources in terms of exploitation, management and protection of their deposits. The students will be trained to the technical and regulatory/health aspects specific to the exploitation of these resources, in particular thanks to the interventions of professionals of the sector and to the visit of an exploitation site. They will also be made aware of the management and protection of this type of aquifer in order to be able to propose study protocols to be implemented in situ to characterize and protect these resources and thus acquire hydrogeological expertise for this type of aquifer.

The objective of this course is to make the students acquire complementary and specific knowledge on mineral and thermal waters in order to train them in the management and protection of these deposits. At the end of this course they will be able to :

- Recognize and identify the specificities of natural mineral and/or thermal waters (origin, properties, management and protection of water),

- To master the regulatory and sanitary aspect to be respected to exploit and manage these resources,

- Master the concepts and tools to explain the origin of flows and their residence time from geological, hydrodynamic and hydrogeochemical/isotopic information

- To propose methodological protocols to be implemented to characterize the hydrogeological functioning of the deposit and the possible impacts in terms of protection and management of the associated resource.

Natural tracing - Natural flow tracing and aquifer vulnerability

100% continuous assessment including a MCQ and a report with the objective of proposing a detailed methodological protocol to characterize the hydrogeological functioning of a thermal system